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tile Employees, refused to sign
on once the association was es
tablished.
Their refusal to join the organi
zation was for some of the same
reasons that worry students
about the FLA.
“I think it’s a multifaceted is
sue,” Dharmarajah said. The
FLA "still doesn’t address the
hard-core issues that we want it
to.”
In the FLA charter, standards
for a livable wage, an indepen
dent monitoring system and
women’s rights are not ad
dressed.
Dharmarajah said human
rights organizations want living
wage requirements and disclo
sure of factory locations and
working conditions.
“It’s really weak compared to
what we want,” Dharmarajah
said. “It’s a step in the right di
rection, but we need to take big
ger steps.”
Students have voiced concerns
about Nike labor practices and
protested the University of Ore
gon’s affiliation with the sports
wear giant.
Many universities have con
tracts or license agreements with
Nike or one of its competitors.
The agreements enable a sports
wear company or shoe manufac
turer to merchandise and market
products that showcase the uni
versity name or logo.
This University of Oregon has
a multimillion dollar agreement
with Nike that allows the compa
ny to market clothing bearing the
University’s name or logo. A sep
arate contract provides Universi
ty athletes with uniforms and
workout clothes that bear the
Nike name and logo.
The University has not joined
the FLA, but Duncan McDonald,
vice president of public affairs
and development, said member
ship is something to be consid
ered.
“I’m a believer in the strength
that comes from unity,” McDon
ald said. “Being on the same
page as other universities and
applying pressure is not a bad
thing.
We don’t want to put
our name on something
and go down a road that
might blow up in our
faces. We want this
university to be proud of
the relationships we
have.
Duncan McDonald
UO vice president of public affairs
and development
“If the University joins the
FLA or another related group, it
demonstrates concern in this is
sue.”
McDonald said people want to
be a part of the “investigative ma
chinery” that monitors corporate
labor practices, but there is some
disagreement about who should
do the monitoring.
McDonald said it is a step for
ward and it can only get better.
“We don’t want to put our
name on something and go
down a road that might blow up
in our faces,” McDonald said.
“We want this university to be
proud of the relationships we
have.”
Nike recently mandated mini
mum age requirements for its fac
tory workers. Nike officials rein
forced the credo that “Nike does
not tolerate child labor.”
Kidd said factory owners were
immediately ordered to adhere to
the new age requirements. Work
ers in apparel and equipment
factories must be 16 and
footwear factory workers are re
quired to be 18. Underage em
ployees at the time the mandate
was announced retained their
jobs.
“We didn’t want people to lose
their jobs because of higher stan
dards,” Kidd said.
Nike also vowed to meet air
quality requirements and person
al exposure limits for factories in
foreign countries as set by the
U.S. Occupational Safety and
Health Administration.
To achieve this, Nike is con
verting from petroleum-based
solvents to water-based solvents
and glues, Kidd said.
Out of 100 pairs of shoes, 95
are made using entirely water
based adhesives, far exceeding
the industry standard, according
to Nike officials.
Kidd said while indoor air
quality has been a focus for im
proving overall factory quality,
Nike continues to improve work
conditions by studying tempera
ture, noise and nutrition and
health.
Factory conditions and air
quality control are less a priori
ty in the company’s improve
ments than worker-related is
sues such as compensation and
education.
“The most important thing in
this labor issue is the worker,”
said Maria Eitel, Nike’s vice
president for corporate responsi
bility.
Nike has stepped up efforts to
offer employees education pro
grams such as middle school and
high school equivalency courses.
Presently, free programs are
available in 15 of Nike’s 37
footwear factories. Nike officials
said they will not order footwear
products from factories that have
not established similar programs
by 2002.
Another program to aid work
ers is Nike’s loan program.
With the help of Working with
Friendship Bridge, a Colorado
based nongovernmental agency,
and Vietnamese women’s
unions, Nike awarded more than
2,300 loans in Vietnam as of Feb
ruary 1999.
Nike hopes to build greater un
derstanding by funding industry
research and open forums to ex
plore issues related to global
manufacturing and labor prac
tices.
In November, Nike hosted a fo
rum in Bangkok, Thailand,
where Nike employees shared
techniques for improving envi
ronmental conditions with its
competitors.
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Higher education and K-12 are
funded by the same monies.
Without an increase in taxes, a
raise in one will mean a cut in
the other, Ross said.
Rep. Bill Morrisette (D-Spring
field) sees the funding issue a lit
tle differently. In a letter to the
governor, Morrisette referred to
education spending as K-16 to
eliminate choosing one side and
proposed complete funding for
both.
The new budget and tuition
freeze still need to be approved
by the senate and the governor
before implementation. Without
raising taxes, Oregon Student As
sociation Spokesman Ed Dennis
said, he is doubtful the governor
will approve the higher educa
tion budget.
Dennis said it is hard to make
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dents, which is essentially what
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On the other hand, higher edu
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